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Comments posted by Anon1 from United States, December 14, 2005:
Successfully burned 50 out of 50 of these disc with absolutely no problems. No coasters and they play great. Only downfall for these is the slow 2.4x write speed, but they were cheap! in Nov. 2004

Comments posted by anomaly from United States, January 14, 2005:
got a few for free from a friend. they wouldn't burn on my burner even with the latest firmware. always gets power calibration errors. i don't know if these are still available for purchase but if you have a nec 3500 i'd stay away from these.

Comments posted by Michael Wehle from United States, December 18, 2004:
These things have caused me a lot of grief. They seemed to burn just fine at 2.4x, on an HL-DT-ST GCA-4040N drive. Often they'd play fine the first time, but then start experiencing skips and garbage on a second or third play, especially towards the end of the DVD.

Comments posted by The Sinister Minister from United States, June 13, 2004:
I have had NO problems burning video or data to this media; however, playback outside the pc world has been hit or miss at best. My Apex 110W won't read the media at all (nor would it read my Memorex DVD+R's), and my Durabrand DVD Player will usually play fine to the end at which point the video will begin to freeze and jump around randomly. Some discs will play all the way through -- I assume it depends on how much of the disc was actually written.

Comments posted by tony fairbanks from United States, June 11, 2004:
Buy one get on free Office Depot purchase. No problems with Sony Dru 500AX, I like the styling of Top of Media (frost effect/silver swoosh). 6 spindles (25 count) and only 3 coasters from what looks like a manufacturer's defect on 1 cakebox.

Comments posted by Eric M. Berg from United States, June 03, 2004:
I had a horrible experience with these discs. The burning process appeared to complete successfully, but each of the discs I created had one or more of the following problems:

--Could not be read by the NEC ND-2100AD drive that created them.
--Could not be read by any drive that I had.
--Appeared to be readable but gave CRC errors when I tried to copy files off the DVD onto my hard disk.
--Windows Event Log showed dozens of errors about bad blocks.
--MD5 checksum utility showed the files as invalid.

For a while I thought my drive had failed, but it works fine with other media. I'm going to ask for a refund of what I paid for these discs, and plan to avoid this media in the future.

Comments posted by Saulo Silva from Brazil, May 26, 2004:
Though it's not the fastest media to burn out there, it turned out to be one of my absolute favorites.
I have burned tons of them, not a single problem, at least with the equipment I used. Excellent for data storage, video recording... I just haven't tested with video-game because I don't have one.
The movies played perfectly in Philips DVD625 and Gradiente D460.
I haven't tried the ones made by Ricoh, but these manufactured by CMC MAG are working just fine for me.
I will never, ever buy cheap media like Princo, Iota and Ritek... my data are too valuable to be lost after a couple of years.

Comments posted by Vrijesh from Sweden, May 23, 2004:
Great media 25 pack spindle - Buy 1 for $39.99 Get 1 free at Office Depot. Works great with my MagicSpin BTC1008IM, LiteOn-LDW951S, and HiVal HDVDRW4D.
Works great with my 2 year old Mustek and my new Cyberhome DVD players.

Comments posted by soulfulz from United States, March 17, 2004:
Worked for me every single time. NO coasters, plays movies on my ps2 and dvd-vhs combo like a gem. Never a problem burning dvd's. Glad I bought em at office depot buy one get one free. Perfect!

Comments posted by Jeff from United States, March 13, 2004:
Ended up taken them back. Tried to burn four two would not work at all two worked but when you get close to the end of the movie they would freeze and jump around. Burned the same movie on a TDK disk and they burned fine.

Additional information:

Price: $50 Purchased from: BestBuy Date purchased: March 2004 Burnt with Lite-On LDW-401S at 2.4x Burning reliability is Poor. PC reliability is Poor. DVD reliability is Poor. Console reliability is Poor. Media inkjet printable reliability is Good. Media color is Purple. Media text is Black. Media package type is Cake Box. Number of discs 50. Authoring/Burning comments:DVD Shrink
DVD Decryptor
Nero 6.0.0.13 Does not work on Apex AD-1200Does not work on Apex AD-660Does not work on Microsoft XboxDoes not work on Panasonic SC-HT75

Comments posted by Frank from United States, February 29, 2004:
CMC Mag. Works fine at 2.4x on XBox.

Comments posted by Doug Konarska from United States, February 14, 2004:
Burned 6 so far and 1 of those was a coaster. Also, when I put a nice disc label on it, the disc becomes unreadable. After I peel off the label the disc works fine again.

Comments posted by Josue from United States, February 06, 2004:
great media, burned 3 movies with it, and 2 ps2 games.. actually it fixed a problem that ive had with a tdk 4x disk+r/ ive burned need for speed underground, and the playback was ok, burned it again with philips and the results were GREAT! i love this media, plus i got 100pk, from office depot for $96 dollars w/tax included.. great media!

Comments posted by Jon from Other, January 11, 2004:
Media works well for me. over 20 backups made no coasters. Got in on the office depot deal. Using DVD shrink beta. Nero 6 to burn on a TDK 420N with firmware upgrade. Plays flawlessly on my Progressive scan Panasonic. Choppy playback on my RCA player (very old dvd that won't recognize cd-rs either)

Comments posted by teddy from Other, January 10, 2004:
So far 2 coasters out of 6 discs written. None plays on my standalone dvd player. Bad KProbe test results. The only good things about this discs is that I got 25-pack for free - bought 2 packs from Office Depot (buy 1 get 1 offer), and after finding out how bad they are just returned the 2nd pack unopened...

Comments posted by sffiremedic from Other, December 30, 2003:
Well I had high hopes as Philips developed the +r/rw format and I got these at Office Depot sale no rebate two 25/packs for $49.95 so $1 a disc. Well. 8 discs later, four are coasters...2 failed to reador format and were pronounced "invalid disc". The other 2 formated and successfullr were read and burned, but could not be formatted because after burning could not be read by the recorder and were pronounced "invalid disc" so thus coiuld not be finalized. Rebooting did not help. The other four were successfully finalized and could be played back on the recorder and an Apex 1500 which will play anything thrown at it (so far).
RUN don't walk, away from theses discs. Guess I'll wait for another Best Buy rebate sale and get the Fuji
for $1.2-/disc! Have no problems with Fuji, TDK or even the Memorex that don't work in my friend's Philips deck.

Comments posted by Xeung from Other, December 28, 2003:
Media has a difficult time playing movies with my dvd player & my new ps2. When check for errors, they show signs of them with DvdInfo & Nero. I thought i had a bad batch of these, but the other spindle were the same exact as the first spindle opened. Errors, skipping and freezing. From Philips, consumers would expect high quality, especially with the money Philips are expecting for their DVDr, but they're so far away in competition to supply good blank medias to customers. CMC-type medias is not an excuse, Philips needs to step up and watch over what they are selling to customers.

Comments posted by Zemote from Other, December 09, 2003:
These are the first DVD I have bought. I have burnt 25 discs in the last 4 days and have not had a single problem. Movie backups with DVD Shrink play perfect on my Philips DVD 619 standalone player and Data that I have been backing up has worked flawlessly.

Comments posted by Tony from Other, November 10, 2003:
15 for 15, burning is not an issue, burn great. It played fine for a month, but when i went back to play them again on my dvd system, they're showing signs of errors. These disc never saw daylight as they were stored in an cd album cover away from harm.

Comments posted by Hsin from Other, November 09, 2003:
These discs burned great in my LG GSA-4040B with CopyToDVD. Nero was horrible for my drive with some Circuit City Liquid Video DVD-R made by Optodisc. Then I switched to CopyToDVD. These discs played in my JVC XV-SA75GD even better than Memprex 4x DVD+R discs (RICOHJPN) I burned in the same with CopyToDVD.

Comments posted by Vincent Vega from Other, September 27, 2003:
Been going to a lot of media with my NEC writer and lots were awful. Even though I had bad experiences with CD-R's from CMC, these DVDs they made for Philips are turning out to be a superb combination with the 1300A.